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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Read them with a little media literacy. Birth/Blood nature keeps coming up and was one the reasons I was getting uncomfortable with the story and dropped half way though. Hagrid is naturally angry. Voldemort is evil because he was a rape baby. House Elves are natural slavesservants. The Weasley family will always be poor(even when Harry should be paying rent or at least buying them a new car). Hell, the Irish character keeps blowing things up. This mind set in her writing reflects to JK's views on trans. You are the way you are at birth.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This. Not only is JKR a sorry excuse for a human being, she didn't even write good stories. Ursula K LeGuin wasn't keen on them either:

    "I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the 'incredible originality' of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy crossed with a 'school novel,' good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited."

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Shaun pointed out how mean spirited the books were as well. I remember back when there was a mini satanic panic targeting the HP books and Philip Pullman came out and said that his books were way more anti-religion and that he should have been getting that attention.

    The first book was... fine I guess. Nothing ground breaking and the weirdness was still shallow and hadn't created a pattern yet. I was really surprised that Voldemort became the reoccurring villain. He's just a boring villain.

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